Love Apartment: Active Dali

Holmes had already been waiting in the virtual space, waiting for an order to teleport to their location and tell them, "You have arrived here on time. At this time, most of the residents should be immersed in virtual reality.

So we have plenty of time to conduct the investigation." Hu Yifei suddenly became excited after hearing this, and then rushed towards the portal at a rapid pace.

"The protective barrier on the top floor has been activated. You can't go in there now. You have to wait until Xiao Hei finds the cracking code." Holmes quickly spoke out to stop her.

The entrance to the top floor is sealed with an encrypted quantum lock.

Xiao Hei searched in the ocean of data, and after a moment he approached with a decoding sequence: "This code can unlock this door."

With a slight electronic sound, the door opened. The scene before them was not as horrible as they had expected, but rather made them indulge in the simulated sunlight.

The lighting on the top floor was simulated so realistically that it seemed to illuminate every corner of their hearts. However, to their surprise, the space here was even larger than they had expected.

Few people set foot here, as has become the norm in this digital age, but everyone feels a strange interest in this sunny, soothing place.

It was also here that a crucial case occurred. No one expected that this murder would be intertwined with innocent digital lives.

This place is located in the core area of ​​the top floor and looks very eye-catching. Xiao Hei holds the decoding sequence of the crime scene and walks forward.

After a careful scan, they found no signs of abnormality in the corridor on the top floor, not even a trace of broken digital fragments. Xiao Hei was waiting for them at the door.

Not wanting to miss any details, the group stepped inside, only to be greeted by an unusual electronic smell.

"The deceased has been dead for a long time, and the data here may not have been cleaned up yet to preserve its original state. We need to go in ourselves." Hu Yifei held back her nausea, endless questions rising in her mind.

"What kind of freak would do something crazy like that?" she muttered.

However, the door was locked and they had to work hard to decipher their way in. Fortunately, the surrounding holographic windows did not seem indestructible.

Without Xiao Hei, they probably wouldn't be able to get in and could only observe from the outside. Xiao Hei used his skills to cleverly destroy a corner of the window, allowing them to pass through.

They were very cautious throughout the process so as not to damage the scene. In order not to interfere with the key clues, they decided to explore the most important crime scene alone.

There were old electronic blood marks here, which seemed to have been left there for a long time, so they could not approach at the same time. Holmes walked alone.

"There is nothing abnormal here. It may be traces left from a struggle. Everything seems normal, but it is clear that the deceased did not terminate the program himself."

"How do you know for sure? Just based on the electronic blood on the ground? This is too crazy!" Xiao Hei was shocked. The scene before him was far more complicated than they had imagined.

The indoor air circulation system seemed to be shut down, causing everyone to feel suffocated and they had to immediately cover their sensory interfaces with their hands.

"You see, there is no exit in this room. This must be a clue left by the perpetrator. In order to act quickly, he closed all the exits."

"Even the windows were tightly sealed, but normally, there would be tiny gaps in the windows of a home holographic camera, but they didn't." Holmes' words shocked everyone present. They didn't expect the murderer to be so carefully planned.

It seemed that the murderer had been preparing for a long time and had set up an ambush long ago. After this series of analysis, they were more convinced of the murderer's ruthlessness.

Looking at all this, they seemed to be able to understand the pain the deceased was feeling at the time. If it were them, they would probably not be able to endure such an experience.

"So, how do you determine that the deceased did not terminate the procedure himself?" After careful consideration, they still asked this question, finding it hard to believe that this was evidence.

Holmes realizes that he needs to explain all this with easy-to-understand logic, so he begins to reason: "Obviously, someone who self-terminates the program wouldn't do that."

"If the deceased has a tendency to self-terminate, they will choose a virtual fall or energy exhaustion. If they want to reduce pain, they will also choose to take a large amount of energy inhibitors."

"If the deceased had gone through a self-termination procedure, taking a large amount of inhibitors and sealing all exits, then it means that he was fully prepared."

Everyone nodded. On the surface, they seemed to understand the cause and effect, but they still had doubts in their hearts.

"So, apart from these, do we have any other solid evidence?" Xiao Hei was still confused and didn't understand why anyone would risk coming to this place and do such an unwise thing.

He thought this matter required further consideration, so he used his equipment to record all the evidence. But Holmes remembered a description in the book.

If the deceased really wanted to terminate themselves, they would do so in a less painful way, such as by overdosing on virtual energy…